Medical Minutes

When you need timely health care information, turn to the excellent physicians and staff at Anderson. Here we offer a variety of topics, including high-tech advancements in the medical field, plus practical steps you and your family can take to better your health.

In this Medical Minute, Bryce Branning, Clinical Integration Coordinator, explains how Anderson Health and Fitness Center can help patients safely transition from rehabilitation to a healthy, active lifestyle.

In this Medical Minute, Dr. Dru Denison discusses gastroparesis, a serious condition in which the stomach muscles work poorly or not at all and results in chronic nausea and vomiting. Anderson Regional Medical Center offers the area's only minimally invasive surgical procedure for the treatment of gastroparesis.

In this Twin States News Medical Minute, Katie Cummings, Occupational Therapist, discusses urinary incontinence which is a common condition in men and women and can be treated with outpatient rehabilitation.

In this Medical Minute, Dr. Caleb Dulaney, Radiation Oncologist at Anderson Regional Cancer Center, discusses Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy, or SBRT, which is the latest technique for treating early stage lung cancer. SBRT is a highly sophisticated treatment that involves the delivery of a few high-dose radiation treatments as opposed to conventional therapy that is delivered in small daily doses over the course of several weeks.

In this Medical Minute, Dr. Stacy Thaggard details what an MRI does and who can benefit from this procedure. Anderson Regional MRI Center has the area's only Open MRI, which is beneficial for patients with claustrophobia, young children and elderly adults who require the presence of a caregiver, and larger patients.

In this Medical Minute, Sonja Twilley, RN, Nurse Manager at Tom C. Maynor Rehabilitation Center, discusses the wide range of therapy services available at the center and the approach the staff takes to get patients back to their highest level of functioning.